The COVID pandemic's influence on public health systems is a deep one. From the lessons learnt in our struggles to find ways to respond, the idea of "pandemic preparedness" took root and emerged as an approach to tackle health emergencies akin to a war footing.
But this approach is like insurance, you need it when an emergency strikes. For a healthy lifestyle however, one must not ignore nutritious diets, regular exercise and mental wellbeing. In the same way, the concept of "One Health" is about looking at people's health in conjunction with our living environments that includes the health of our planet and other organisms that co-habit with us.
At AVPN, we started to explore this topic tentatively - with a small closed door discussion led by the very knowledgeable Pranay Lal. We were pleasantly surprised by the number of people who showed to our office and logged in online to participate in the dialogue. We then understood the need to bring experts from different fields within public health, animal health and also industry actors in pharma and life sciences into the tent.
Join us in Abu Dhabi as this topic takes the stage on the very first day of our AVPN Global Conference on 23rd April moderated by the distinguished Dr. N. Krishna Reddy and joined by Dale Huntington Himanshu Sikka Neena Joshi and Reem Abdelhamid-Gazzaz ريم عمرو عبدالحميد ACCESS Health International Johnson & Johnson IPE Global Limited Heifer International WHO Foundation Bhawani Maurya Ayu Ariyanti Anupama Anand Madhav Joshi
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